If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
NADINE GORDIMERArt defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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